On 02/11/2021 12:05, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > The Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms are very old designs. S3C2416 > was introduced in 2008 and S3C6410 in 2009/2010. They are not widely > available anymore - out-of-stock on FriendlyArm (one of manufacturers of > boards) and only few specialist stores still offer them for quite a high > price. > > The community around these platforms was not very active, so I suspect > no one really uses them anymore. Maintenance takes precious time so > there is little sense in keeping them alive if there are no real users. > > Let's mark all S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms as deprecated and mention > possible removal in one year (after 2022). The deprecation message will > be as text in Kconfig, build message (not a warning though) and runtime > print error. > > If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/arm/Kconfig | 7 ++++++- > arch/arm/mach-s3c/Kconfig.s3c64xx | 7 ++++++- > arch/arm/mach-s3c/cpu.c | 1 + > arch/arm/mach-s3c/init.c | 2 ++ > arch/arm/mach-s3c/s3c24xx.c | 5 +++++ > arch/arm/mach-s3c/s3c64xx.c | 5 +++++ > 6 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig > index f0f9e8bec83a..bd8237c7e7f1 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig > @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ config ARCH_SA1100 > Support for StrongARM 11x0 based boards. > > config ARCH_S3C24XX > - bool "Samsung S3C24XX SoCs" > + bool "Samsung S3C24XX SoCs (deprecated, see help)" > select ATAGS > select CLKSRC_SAMSUNG_PWM > select GPIO_SAMSUNG > @@ -491,6 +491,11 @@ config ARCH_S3C24XX > (<http://www.simtec.co.uk/products/EB110ITX/>), the IPAQ 1940 or the > Samsung SMDK2410 development board (and derivatives). > > + The platform is deprecated and scheduled in removal. Please reach to Language typo - "for removal". I'll fix it in v2, if the idea looks reasonable. Best regards, Krzysztof
